We have a variety of book clubs that are always open to new members. Check our events calendar for meeting dates and book titles.
Happy Bookers - This long-standing book group reads a variety of titles including fiction and non-fiction.
Killer Reads - If you enjoy true crime non-fiction then this new club is for you.
Book Club Titles for 2020 include:
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, by Gail Honeyman
Silent Witnesses: The Often Gruesome but Always Fascinating History of Forensic Science, by Nigel McCrery
The Nickel Boys, by Colson Whitehead
Love Lies: A True Story of Marriage and Murder in the Suburbs, by Amanda Lamb
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, by Kim Richardson
The Trial of Lizzie Borden, by Cara Robertson
The Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eco
A Daughter's Deadly Deception, by Jeremy Grimaldi
The Silent Patient, by Alex Michaelides
While the City Slept: A Love Lost to Violence and a Young Man's Descent into Madness, by Eli Sanders
Someone Knows my Name, by Lawrence Hill
American Murder Houses: A Coast-to-Coast Tour of the Most Notorious Houses of Homicide, by Steve Lehto
Book Club Titles from 2019 include:
| A Gentleman in Moscow, by Amor Towles |
| And Then There Were None, by Agatha Christie |
| As Bright as Heaven, by Susan Meissner |
| Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End, by Atul Gawande |
| Below Stairs, by Margaret Powell |
| Educated: a memoir, by Tara Westover |
| Letters from Skye, by Jessica Brockmole |
| Lizzie’s War, by Tim Farrington |
| Murder at the Brightwell, by Ashley Weaver |
| Peace Like a River, by Leif Enger |
| Persuasion, by Jane Austen |
| The House at Riverton, by Kate Morton |
| The Remains of the Day, by Kazuo Ishiguro |
| The Secrets We Kept, by Krystal Sital |
| The Seven and a Half Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, by Stuart Turton |
| Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston |
| This Side of Murder, by Anna Lee Huber |
| Whistling Past the Graveyard, by Susan Crandall |
Past Book Club titles include:
| When Books Went to War, by Molly Manning |
| Hillbilly Elegy, by JD Vance |
| Above Suspicion, by Joe Sharkey |
| Confessions of a Master Jewel Thief, by Bill Mason |
| I Am a Pencil, by Sam Swope |
| Girl in the Dark, by Anna Lyndsey |
| Head Case, by Cole Cohen |
| At Home, by Bill Bryson |
| Outcasts United, by Warren St. John |
| The Boys in the Boat, by James Brown |
| The Great Detective, by Zach Dundas |
| Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey, by Fiona Carnarvon |
| Run, Don't Walk, by Adele Levine |
| Upstairs at the White House, by JB West |
| The Stranger in the Woods, by Michael Finkel |
| Killers of the Flower Moon, by David Grann |
| Cleopatra, by Stacy Schiff |
| After Visiting Friends, by Michael Hainey |
| The Mockingbird Next Door, by Marja Mills |
| Growing Up Amish, by Ira Wagler |
| I Am Malala, by Malala Yousafzai |
| Say You're One of Them, by Uwem Akpan |
| And Only to Deceive, by Tasha Alexander |
| A Man Called Ove, by Fredrick Backman |
| Quicksand, by Carolyn Baugh |
| The Other Einstein, by Marie Benedict |
| Year of Wonder, by Geraldine Brooks |
| The Good Earth, by Pearl S. Buck |
| The Girl With All the Gifts, by Mike Carey |
| The Fiction Class, by Susan Breen |
| The Sittaford Mystery, by Agatha Christie |
| The Zahir, by Paulo Coelho |
| One Vacant Chair, by Joe Coomer? |
| The Saffron Kitchen, by Yasmin Crowther |
| The Hours, by Michael Cunningham |
| London is the Best City in America, by Laura Dave |
| The Madonnas of Leningrad, by Debra? |
| The Language of Flowers, by Vanessa Diffenbaugh |
| The Tea Rose, by Jennifer Donnelly |
| The Life We Bury, by Allen Esken |
| Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides |
| The Universe Versus Alex Woods, by Gavin Extence |
| The Yellow House, by Patricia Falvey |
| Tender is the Night, by F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| Crime and Poetry, by Amanda Flower |
| A Plain Death, by Amanda Flower |
| A Plain Disappearance, by Amanda Flower |
| A Plain Scandal, by Amanda Flower |
| Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, by Jamie Ford |
| The Jane Austen Book Club, by Karen Joy Fowler |
| Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter, by Tom Franklin |
| Freedom, by Jonathan Franzen |
| The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman |
| Love in the Time of Cholera, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
| North and South, by Elizabeth Gaskell |
| Flora, by Gail Godwin |
| The Kitchen House, by Kathleen Grissom |
| Water for Elephants, by Sara Gruen |
| The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by Mark Haddon |
| Austenland, by Shannon Hale |
| Midnight in Austenland, by Shannon Hale |
| The Anatomist's Wife, by Anna Lee Huber |
| Between, Georgia, by Joshilyn Jackson |
| Gods in Alabama, by Joshilyn Jackson |
| Mudbound, by Hillary Jordan |
| The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, by Rachel Joyce |
| A Separation, by Kate Kitamura |
| The Good Girl, by Mary Kubica |
| Last Train to Istanbul, by Ayse Kulin |
| Girl in Translation, by Jean Kwok |
| The Bottoms, by Joe R. Landsdale |
| Go Set a Watchman, by Harper Lee |
| The Giver, by Lois Lowry |
| I Let You Go, by Clare Mackintosh |
| Life of Pi, by Yann Martel |
| The Road, by Cormac McCarthy |
| The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, by Carson McCullers |
| Saturday, by Ian McEwan |
| Shadow Baby, by Alison McGhee |
| Circling the Sun, by Paula McLain |
| The Paris Wife, by Paula McLain |
| A Fall of Marigolds, by Susan Meissner |
| All the Bright Places, by Jennifer Niven |
| The Things They Carried, by Time O'Brien |
| The Dogs of Babel, by Carolyn Parkhurst |
| Out of Darkness, by Ashley Hope Perez |
| Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson |
| Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk, by Kathleen Rooney |
| A Thread of Grace, by Mary Doria Russell |
| Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, by Lisa See |
| The Pecan Man, by Cassie Dandridge Selleck |
| Where'd You Go, Bernadette, by Maria Semple |
| The Thirteenth Tale, by Diane Setterfield |
| A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith |
| The Light Between Oceans, by ML Stedman |
| Tortilla Flat, by John Steinbeck |
| The Art of Racing in the Rain, by Garth Stein |
| The Story Hour, by Thrity Umrigar |
| The Dirty Girls Social Club, by Alisa Valdes |
| Beautiful Ruins, by Jess Walter |
| The Legacy, by Katherine Webb |
| Eyes On You, by Kate White |
| The Wrong Man, by Kate White |
| Another Brooklyn, by Jacqueline Woodson |
| Revolutionary Road, by Richard Yates |